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Do you abide by the laws of alchemy?

I tried a human transmutation... 0.090909090909091 9.1% [ 2 ]
I turned my house into gold...and then it turned into stone 0.18181818181818 18.2% [ 4 ]
To obtain, something of equal value must be lost 0.54545454545455 54.5% [ 12 ]
I am a Chimera... 0.18181818181818 18.2% [ 4 ]
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A lot of the formula's require items that are in the millions and several of them at that.

Is there a trick to this? Or is it just a waste of time?

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Generally speaking, the people who are most devoted to Alchemy are in it for one of these things:

1) The 13 Alchemy-based Achievements,

2) The prestige of having crafted some Level-10 thing themselves (like Backwings), or

3) the challenge. (especially if they were getting bored with Gaia.)

Alchemy is definitely the sort of project where you need to know what you're doing. You will succeed or fail based on how much research you've done. There are ways to turn a profit, but if you just try doing whatever crosses your path you'll probably crash and burn.

Dangerous Dabbler

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The trick is that You Must Do Your Research. Check out the guides, most are still useful. For people who love research, this is/was the most wonderfully intricate involved pasttime on Gaia, even if it's gotten a helluva lot easier than it was at the beginning.

For people who want to turn a quick profit, or who jump in and buy the 1 gc formulas, it's Too Difficult and a Bunch of Crap.

And that's why they brought out GoFusion. cool
emotion_c8 I get itttt. I've been on for a long time but not consistently, so I missed out on the alchemy stuff when it came around. I just went on an FMA binge so I was like....hmmmmm, alchemy. emotion_dowant

Thanks for the information. :] I'll try it out.

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so far most of the guides ive seen are about go farm zomg..... ummm zomg is gone....

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Depends really. In our current economic state, the greater worth is reaching level 10 and getting that crown since gold is like water. For others, it's finally getting those items they wanted on the mp but could never get through conventional way. Plus the luck and odds in it. You can craft a very low chance based formula on the first hit, or drain 10x the amount needed to craft it.
Personally I'm more in it for the pride of becoming a high level alchemist.

Dangerous Dabbler

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so far most of the guides ive seen are about go farm zomg..... ummm zomg is gone....

You can't farm zOMG! anymore for charge orbs, but you can farm Towns 1.0 for paper, bugs, and flowers. Learn the desireable types and the times of day they come out (Gaia Towns run on a 10 real minutes = 1 hour Gaia time schedule, and different items are more prevalent in daytime, nighttime, or dawn/dusk). If you want charge orbs, you can now get them from the zOMG version of the Philosopher's Cache, so you can either sell your flowers/papers/bugs to buy those off the marketplace, or spend longer to make Alchemist Cases and sell those to fund the rest.

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A lot of the formula's require items that are in the millions and several of them at that.

Is there a trick to this? Or is it just a waste of time?



First, craft the components formulas only after level 5. In addition, on each level be sure to craft 2 or 3 formulas from the previous level before you attempt a formula on your current level. I found that this made things a little easier. Note: On level 7 and beyond you will probably end up crafting formulas from the previous level until you get about halfway through the level.

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A lot of the formula's require items that are in the millions and several of them at that.

Is there a trick to this? Or is it just a waste of time?



First, craft the components formulas only after level 5. In addition, on each level be sure to craft 2 or 3 formulas from the previous level before you attempt a formula on your current level. I found that this made things a little easier. Note: On level 7 and beyond you will probably end up crafting formulas from the previous level until you get about halfway through the level.


That's really the cheapest way to do it.

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emotion_c8 I get itttt. I've been on for a long time but not consistently, so I missed out on the alchemy stuff when it came around. I just went on an FMA binge so I was like....hmmmmm, alchemy. emotion_dowant

Thanks for the information. :] I'll try it out.

There is a guide for cache only formulas, that should help you level up fairly quickly.
If you don't get into it you can sell the contents of the opened caches for a lot of gold. heart

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3) the challenge. (especially if they were getting bored with Gaia.)

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itts notto bad u cando it cheeep just hav to clik clik clcick clikc click click clciccik clicck on lottslsots lots 10000110000011000 chashs

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For some is.
I am like... totes not even gonna buy Gaia Cash in my life but I still wanna give my friends cool gifts so alchemy is the easy hard way. Like making something hard with your own methods and of course, selling alchemized stuff is also highly profitable.

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Why is this so funny? lol I was not expecting this!

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